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Kemi Badenoch: “What we don't want to see is people going after the elderly, chasing after vulnerable and disabled people, and then the…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2026
What we don't want to see is people going after the elderly, chasing after vulnerable and disabled people, and then the extremely large cohort of people who can work, who are not working, are left alone.
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Kemi Badenoch
Conservative Party
Source
bbc.co.uk

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Commenting on welfare policy.

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